Don't you call me an atheist, you

Campbell Brown hosts NO BIAS, NO BULL on CNN, and in this clip she gives Senator Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina the prize for the ugliest campaign ad this time around. Dole makes an accusation that's so vicious and denigrating and everything that's bad that it's just too damn much for Campbell Brown and all those of us who are sick and tired of this ugly election. We are fed up to here taking this bull from the people who are so chock full of bias.

Dole is accusing Kay Hagan of being... an atheist!!! What? How goddamn low can you stoop? Call her a socialist. Call her a vicious lesbian. You can do anything, but lay off calling her an atheist. They don't even even believe in God! I could understand if she said she didn't believe in God, but calling her an atheist is just over the top. Hagan is a freaking Presbytarian! So there, stop those vicious lies, Elizabeth Dole.

Now, with that out of the way we can resume our daily lives full of church-going, prayer, and miracles. Remember, prayer works. It really does. Especially next Tuesday, so stay home all day and pray hard, those of you who root for McCain.

Pleiotropy comes from the Greek πλείων pleion, meaning "more", and τρέπειν trepein, meaning "to turn, to convert". It designates the occurrence of a single gene affecting multiple traits, and is a hugely important concept in evolutionary biology.

I'm a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara.

All Many aspects of evolution interest me, but my research focus is currently on microbial evolution, adaptive radiation, speciation, fitness landscapes, epistasis, and the influence of genetic architecture on adaptation and speciation.